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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 12:00:46 -0500
I keep reflecting on Karen's comment last week along with a couple of others about "positive adult characters" or lack of same in Smack.
Authors put a lot of energy into moving fictional adults off-stage, as it were, in books for children and young adults so the plot can develop, not to mention the characters.
Is the presence of adult characters - positive or otherwise - necessary to the success of Smack? of a young adult novel? And if so, then who defines "positive?" More examples, please, from Smack.. Sincerely, Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) University of Wisconsin - Madison
Received on Wed 17 Jun 1998 12:00:46 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 12:00:46 -0500
I keep reflecting on Karen's comment last week along with a couple of others about "positive adult characters" or lack of same in Smack.
Authors put a lot of energy into moving fictional adults off-stage, as it were, in books for children and young adults so the plot can develop, not to mention the characters.
Is the presence of adult characters - positive or otherwise - necessary to the success of Smack? of a young adult novel? And if so, then who defines "positive?" More examples, please, from Smack.. Sincerely, Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) University of Wisconsin - Madison
Received on Wed 17 Jun 1998 12:00:46 PM CDT
